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Forgotten Ground Regained

A.Z. Foreman

Website: poemsintranslation.blogspot.com azforeman on Bluesky @azforeman on X (formerly Twitter)
A.Z. Foreman is a poet and translator, from a variety of languages but most prominently from Arabic.
His alliterative verse translations include:
From Old or Middle Engish (Modern Text Only)
  • Caedmon's Hymn
  • For Two Old English Poets, in The Brazen Head (translations of "Deor" and Beowulf’s “Lament of the Last Survivor”)
From Old Irish
  • "In darkest season of deep winter ..."
  • A Ninth Century Winter Poem
From Welsh
  • The Seagull by Dafyd ap Gwilym
  • The Ruin by Dafd ap Gwilym
From Hebrew
  • The Song of Heshbon
  • David's Grief
  • Psalm 113
From Greek
  • The First Page of the Iliad
  • Aother stab at an alliterative Homer
  • Opening of the Odyssey
  • Scylla and Charybdis scene from the Odyssey
  • Homeric Hymn to Ares
  • Homeric Hymn to Poseidon
From Latin
  • The Epitaph of Gnaeus Naevius
Old or Middle English Audio with Alliterative Text Translation
  • A Little Side Silliness: Star Wars in Old English Alliterative Verse
  • Beowulf Opening: Lines 1-228
  • Beowulf: Lament of the Last Survivor, Lines 2231-2270
  • Bede's Death Song
  • Deor
  • First Two Stanzas of the Nibelungenlied
  • Opening of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
From Arabic
  • A poem by Qays ibn Al-Mulawwaḥ
  • On the Recapture of Al-Hadith, by Al-Mutannabi
From Persian
  • Opening of the Shahnameh
  • Bārbad's lament for Khusraw Parwēz in the Shāhnāma
  • Saadi: Golestan 1.10
From Chinese
  • Li Bai's Borderland Moon
From Old East Slavic
  • The Lay of Igor's Campaign
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